BELHAVEN — Pantego Creek LLC, the group that owns the old hospital property in Belhaven, has declined the latest two offers to purchase the property, according to lawyer Arey Grady III.

One of the offers was from Pungo Medical Center, the nonprofit created to oversee the hospital’s reopening, in the amount of $500,000, which was presented to Pantego Creek on Friday.

The decision means the demolition of the former Vidant Pungo Hospital building will continue as planned. The hospital closed July 1, 2014.

“After careful consideration, the managers of Pantego Creek LLC have rejected the two offers made on the old Pungo District Hospital, primarily because the property is more valuable than the offered amounts,” Grady stated. “Should the property ever be sold, any proceeds from such a sale will be used to further the non-profit mission of Pantego Creek.”

Grady declined to comment on the nature or amount of the other offer.

Pantego Creek’s membership already voted in favor of the demolition earlier this month, and the process began last Monday with asbestos removal.

The $500,000 offer was made in response to the membership’s vote.

“Once that hospital is torn down, you will not have a hospital here in your lifetime,” Mayor Adam O’Neal said at the Nov. 14 Board of Aldermen meeting. “If they don’t think we can do it, that’s fine. Give us 90 days to see if we can do it.”

For more than two years, town officials and some residents have fought to reopen the hospital with efforts to secure funding for the reopening process and to obtain the property through eminent domain, and most recently, with the $500,000 offer.

In response to the decision, O’Neal stated in an email: “The mission of Pantego Creek LLC is to protect quality health care in the area. There is no higher value to the community than a hospital reopened in Belhaven. The actions of Pantego Creek LLC managers are consistently void of any concern for their fellow citizens. They need to rethink their actions. We need the US Justice Dept. to step into this issue.”

The Save the Hospital campaign also issued a video on Monday, imploring supporters to call the U.S. Justice Department and ask it to intervene. In the video, O’Neal said the closing of the hospital was a violation of civil rights, as Belhaven is home to many poor and minority residents.

As of Tuesday, there is no word on the Save the Hospital campaign’s next steps.